This character responds "Not madness, war" when his father-in-law exclaims "This is madness!" in response to a coup led by this character. He character is said to have wept in his mother's womb, which is why he is born with his eyes open. He fathers seventeen sons who all have the same name as him and who are all assassinated by being shot in the forehead. During his last years, he spends most of his time carving small gold fish. The first sentence of the novel in which he appears describes his memory of how his father,
This character responds "Not madness, war" when his father-in-law exclaims "This is madness!" in response to a coup led by this character. He character is said to have wept in his mother's womb, which is why he is born with his eyes open. He fathers seventeen sons who all have the same name as him and who are all assassinated by being shot in the forehead. During his last years, he spends most of his time carving small gold fish. The first sentence of the novel in which he appears describes his memory of how his father, José Arcadio, took him to discover ice. For 10 points, name this first person born in Macondo, a colonel and member of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
This character responds "Not madness, war" when his father-in-law exclaims "This is madness!"
Colonel {Aureliano} Buendía